In GQ’s latest issue featuring “Rapper of the Year” Megan Thee Stallion, she shared some further details about what happened after the summer incident that transpired between her and rapper Tory Lanez.
During the interview, Megan recounts what happened during the altercation and claims that Tory Lanez tried to offer money to keep her and her friend quiet.
She said that during the early morning hours on July 12, Lanez, his bodyguard, and her friend were driving home from a pool party when an argument broke out. She recalls trying to leave the car, but her phone was dead, and she was only wearing a bikini, so she got back in the car. Megan then claims that when she tried to walk away the second time, Lanez began to shoot at her feet, hitting her in both of her heels.
Still in disbelief, she told GQ, “Like, I never put my hands on nobody.” She said, “I barely even said anything to the man who shot me when I was walking away. We were literally like five minutes away from the house.”
Afterward, the incident Megan said that Lanez begged her and her friend not to say anything while offering them money. She said, “At this point, I’m really scared because this is like right in the middle of all the protesting.” She added, “Police are just killing everybody for no reason, and I’m thinking, ‘I can’t believe you even think I want to take some money. Like, you just shot me.’”
A lawyer for Lanez denied that he offered Megan and her friend money to GQ.
Megan says that shortly after the police arrived, she told them that she cut her feet on glass, not to protect Lanez, but to protect them all from the police violence people around the world were protesting against.
Following the incident, Megan felt like she had to stay strong. She said, “Like damn,” adding, “I have to be tough through all this? All the time? It was like, who really checks on us or who protected us? You just go your whole life with that mentality. And then when something actually happens to you, when you properly should have protected yourself, your first instinct was not to protect yourself, it was protecting other people … So it was like, ‘What do I do?’”
She says that every day she reminds herself that she’s “still Megan Thee Stallion.” Since then she has written a New York Times op-ed, played Saturday Night Live, and is only days away from releasing her debut album Good News. On top of her strength and selflessness, it’s so charitable of Meg to let Lanez keep his money. She says Between the $35,000 bail that he paid in July and the legal fees that he’s facing, he’s gonna need it.
